Countries around the world asked Twitter to remove content related to 723 users’ accounts in the first half of 2014, more than double the number of accounts reported in the prior report, according to the company’s latest transparency data.

Twitter agreed to 9% of those requests, in whole or in part. The largest number came from Turkey and France.

Twitter is one of a growing number of companies that release reports detailing requests received from governments for information about users or removal of content. Its report covered January through the end of June.

A surge in removal requests from Turkey to 186 came during a campaign by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to crack down on dissent ahead of elections. The government blocked Twitter and other sites completely, though users could get around the bans by using services that masked their online location.

Twitter also received more than 2,000 requests for information on users, up 46% from the prior period. The U.S. and Japan most frequently requested information, the company said.

Brazil, which hosted the World Cup earlier this summer, made more than triple the number of information requests than the prior reporting period, though Twitter didn’t make the connection between the competition and the requests. The competition spanned from mid-June to mid-July.